April 25, 2003

Researcher Loses Digital-Copyright Suit

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

In a setback for foes of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that a first-year student at Harvard University's law school brought against an Internet-filtering company.

The student, Benjamin G. Edelman, sought to view and distribute a concealed list of Web sites that the company, N2H2 Inc., deems pornographic. He had asked the court to prevent N2H2 from suing him under the terms of copyright law if he decided to bypass the

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